Kolot: Voices from The Ark Synagogue
Aug 20, 2026 · 8 min · 5 segments
Rabbi Andrea Kulikovsky looks back on her first year at The Ark, using the parashah Ki Tetze to explore the weight of vows and the call to never remain indifferent. She shares how Elul’s season of…
Andrea KulikovskyGuest
Lea MühlsteinHost
If you don't remember, the sermon is still available on our website and YouTube.
As I was writing this sermon, I found myself a bit like Moses in Devarim, looking back at the story of this year, at what I have learned, what the community has been through, and where we are today.
Well, this week, my first message is We have survived! It was a year full of learning, meaning that I made lots of mistakes, and you were so kind and loving to me.
But it was also a year of creation, of establishing new relationships, of parties.
And this brings me back to my sermon from one year ago, which was inspired by the letter Rabbi Sharon Browse wrote to her daughter as she took her to university, far from home, comparing that moment to Moses' message to the Israelites.
In my message, I said that this parashah, like the whole book of Deuteronomy, is a bunch of sticky notes to the Israelites.
I talked about the passage that inspired one of my research projects at the college, the , the defiant son, and about one of the most loved, my most loved verses in Torah, which can also be found in this .
One year ago, I said to you, I can promise you that I won't remain indifferent.
If you don't remember, the sermon is still available on our website and YouTube.
As I was writing this sermon, I found myself a bit like Moses in Devarim, looking back at the story of this year, at what I have learned, what the community has been through, and where we are today.
Well, this week, my first message is We have survived! It was a year full of learning, meaning that I made lots of mistakes, and you were so kind and loving to me.
But it was also a year of creation, of establishing new relationships, of parties.
And this brings me back to my sermon from one year ago, which was inspired by the letter Rabbi Sharon Browse wrote to her daughter as she took her to university, far from home, comparing that moment to Moses' message to the Israelites.
In my message, I said that this parashah, like the whole book of Deuteronomy, is a bunch of sticky notes to the Israelites.
I talked about the passage that inspired one of my research projects at the college, the , the defiant son, and about one of the most loved, my most loved verses in Torah, which can also be found in this .
One year ago, I said to you, I can promise you that I won't remain indifferent.
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